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Title: Menorah Seal - What is on the reverse (anything)? #3
Post by: Joe Sermarini on October 31, 2021, 10:30:55 am

Menorah Seal - What is on the reverse (anything)? #3 (JD98656) 4.123g, 15.6mm

Is that something on the reverse? If so, what?

Other information? Refs.?  (I have not tried to research this yet.)

Thanks for any help you can provide. 

Title: Re: Menorah Seal - What is on the reverse (anything)? #3
Post by: v-drome on October 31, 2021, 03:37:45 pm

Hi, Joe.  This is the closest that I have.  Probably not much help but...

https://www.forumancientcoins.com/board/index.php?topic=96375
https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/displayimage.php?pid=112172

Title: Re: Menorah Seal - What is on the reverse (anything)? #3
Post by: Joe Sermarini on October 31, 2021, 04:51:57 pm

Hmm, I would expect, if it is anything at all, it wouldn't be a graven image, especially anything pagan.

Title: Re: Menorah Seal - What is on the reverse (anything)? #3
Post by: Gert on November 07, 2021, 03:10:19 pm

Hi Joe,
These 3 Menorah seals all seem to be double-sided, but I can't make sense of the imagery on the rev for any of them. References are scarce. Still lists 2 examples in his thesis on Roman seals. The catalogue of the Vossen collection by Bill Dalzell and myself, which has just appeared, has 2 Menorah seals (nos 181-182), both with blank reverses. And there are a couple to be found in the regular sales databases of course.
Regards
Gert

Title: Re: Menorah Seal - What is on the reverse (anything)? #3
Post by: Joe Sermarini on November 12, 2021, 07:56:31 pm

Thanks Gert.

I just ordered your book, added a Boersema-Dalzell page to NumisWiki and added the book to the various applicable reference lists throughout the website. I am looking forward to getting it!

Title: Re: Menorah Seal - What is on the reverse (anything)? #3
Post by: Gert on November 14, 2021, 09:32:18 am

Thanks, Joe, much appreciated!
Regards
Gert

Title: Re: Menorah Seal - What is on the reverse (anything)? #3
Post by: Waldemar S on November 14, 2021, 10:35:56 am

Hi Joe

To my eye, do you have a woman and some bird statue there ?

Regards Waldemar

Title: Re: Menorah Seal - What is on the reverse (anything)? #3
Post by: Joe Sermarini on November 26, 2021, 05:33:35 pm

I think that is just like finding shapes in clouds. I would not expect a graven image on the reverse.

Title: Re: Menorah Seal - What is on the reverse (anything)? #3
Post by: Joe Sermarini on January 06, 2022, 06:38:02 am

https://www.forumancientcoins.com/catalog/roman-and-greek-coins.asp?param=98656q00.jpg&vpar=1625&zpg=113739&fld=